Sentences with phrase «with environmental adaptation»

Likai Mao, the project manager of BGI, said, «We found lots of loci could be related with environmental adaptation.

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Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

We have partnered with The Nature Conservancy in organizing the Mass Climate Change Adaptation Coalition, which is comprised of engineers, architects, planners, and conservation and environmental organizations working together to reduce the Commonwealth's vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

This period is marked by fragility of the infant in terms of environmental adaptation to extreme hot and cold temperatures, sucking ability to have an effective feeding pattern, an established sleeping schedule, emotional security with the care takers and proper positioning when sleeping, feeding and burping.

The workshop is sponsored by New York Sea Grant (NYSG) with additional funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community Climate Adaptation Initiative Program and the Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act.

In cultural evolution, convergent evolution is the development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by different peoples with different ancestral cultures.

The study also indicates that adaptation to a certain stable salinity may come at the cost of a poorer ability to cope with temporal environmental change.

The results help researchers understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic relationships, and how the mutualistic association provides host plants with beneficial traits for environmental adaptation.

«This paper represents a significant contribution to our understanding of human environmental adaptation,» says Toomas Kivisild, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the study.

In addition, a flexible pool of microbes — members of which can be exchanged with similar microbes in the environment — is available to assist our survival and adaptation in the face of environmental changes.

«Environmental changes would have produced a lot more fragmented, mosaic - type ecosystems, where populations of horses with similar demands and adaptations could have evolved isolated from one another, resulting in different species but with a similar appearance,» points Manuel Hernández Fernández at the Complutense Univerity in Madrid.

As a result, life on Earth has flourished for over four billion years by recycling its own wastes and exploiting new habitats with physiological adaptations, through occasional environmental disasters such as catastrophic meteoric impacts.

In May 2013 the Arctic Council decided to continue its work on the AACA initiative and requested the AMAP Working Group to «produce information to assist local decision - makers and stakeholders in three pilot regions in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors».

The entrepreneur and speaker is on a mission to help individuals and organizations cultivate the personal practices, workflow adaptations, and environmental / cultural shifts needed to become more agile and innovative in the face of uncertainty with a greater sense of ease.

Nutritional and Botanical Interventions to Assist with the Adaptation to Stress Alternative Medicine Review 1999 (Aug); 4 (4): 249 — 265 ~ FULL TEXT Prolonged stress, whether a result of mental / emotional upset or due to physical factors such as malnutrition, surgery, chemical exposure, excessive exercise, sleep deprivation, or a host of other environmental causes, results in predictable systemic effects.

Nutritional and Botanical Interventions to Assist With the Adaptation to Stress Alternative Medicine Review 1999 (Aug); 4 (4): 249 — 265 ~ FULL TEXT Prolonged stress, whether a result of mental / emotional upset or due to physical factors such as malnutrition, surgery, chemical exposure, excessive exercise, sleep deprivation, or a host of other environmental causes, results in predictable systemic effects.

The TVI collaborates with team members to create effective environmental and curriculum related adaptations to support the development of independence, self - advocacy, classroom participation, visual functioning abilities and / or compensatory strategies.

Weekend schedule: Friday, August 31, 2012 6 — 8 pm: Carbon 13 opening at Ballroom Marfa 8 — 10 pm: Community dinner at The Capri Saturday, September 1, 2012 9:30 am: FarmStand Marfa 10 am: Marfa Lights Festival Parade 1 pm: Discussion: Art and Environmental Activism, moderated by Rebecca Solnit at the Crowley Theater 3 pm: Discussion: Climate Change and Adaptation, with Diana Liverman and John Nielsen - Gammon at the Crowley Theater 6 pm: Michael Pollan in conversation with Hamilton Fish at the Crowley Theater, co-presented with Dixon Water Foundation Sunday, September 2, 2012 9 — 11 am: Brunch and guided nature walk on Mimms Ranch with Robert Potts 1 pm: Reading by Rebecca Solnit at Marfa Book Company 3:30 pm: Presentation by Tom Rand at Marfa Book Company 8 pm: Performance of This Clement World by Cynthia Hopkins at the Crowley Theater All events are free and open to the public.

Saturday, September 1, 2012 9:30 am: FarmStand Marfa 10 am: Marfa Lights Festival Parade 1 pm: Discussion: Art and Environmental Activism, moderated by Rebecca Solnit at the Crowley Theater 3 pm: Discussion: Climate Change and Adaptation, with Diana Liverman and John Nielsen - Gammon at the Crowley Theater 6 pm: Michael Pollan in conversation with Hamilton Fish at the Crowley Theater, co-presented with Dixon Water Foundation

More on environmental taxes: Environmental Duties Make Flying Significantly More Expensive (Der Spiegel) Carriers Criticize German Air Fare Tax (NYT) German Government Adopts Flawed CO2 - Based Car Tax Poor Countries Ask for Aviation Tax to Help with Climate Adaptation Easyjet Steps Up Itsenvironmental taxes: Environmental Duties Make Flying Significantly More Expensive (Der Spiegel) Carriers Criticize German Air Fare Tax (NYT) German Government Adopts Flawed CO2 - Based Car Tax Poor Countries Ask for Aviation Tax to Help with Climate Adaptation Easyjet Steps Up ItsEnvironmental Duties Make Flying Significantly More Expensive (Der Spiegel) Carriers Criticize German Air Fare Tax (NYT) German Government Adopts Flawed CO2 - Based Car Tax Poor Countries Ask for Aviation Tax to Help with Climate Adaptation Easyjet Steps Up Its Eco-campaign

The 3D animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss» classic environmental tale arrives March 2 with Danny DeVito voicing the title role of the forest creature, Ed Helms of «The Office» as the Once - ler and «The Daily Show»'s Rob Riggle.

regulars and those responding to this thread in particular may be interested in the class assignment I presently have underway: students are required to select an environmental issue of interest to them and compare the blogging from three sites that reflect a stasist perspective (command and control, science certainty, centalised government, precautionary principle) with the blogging from three dynamist sites (libertarian, individual responsibility, free market, adaptation over prevention, non-dogma): I expect that several of the students will use climate change as a topic and would expect that climate audit, real climate and prometheus will be prominent in the analysis.

With 40 years» experience in engaging communities at the grassroots to address issues of environmental degradation, community empowerment and advocacy, GBM is uniquely positioned to offer an integrated response to climate change through mitigation, adaptation and promotion of sustainable development.

In particular, it presents four key messages, namely that: biodiversity is key to climate change adaptation; a different set of policy directions, changed incentive structures, reduced or phased - out perverse subsidies, and increased engagement of business leaders is required to work towards «holistic economics»; environmental limits need to be established to ensure society remains within them in order to achieve sustainability; and ecosystem - based adaptation (EBA) is an emerging approach that works with nature to help vulnerable communities and build resilience to climate change.

«Climate change adaptation» is a term increasingly used to describe social efforts dealing with the effects of climate change, yet is unfortunately defined by a number of conflicting environmental and social goals.

-- Consistent with its authorities under other laws and with Federal trust responsibilities with respect to Indian lands, each Federal department or agency with representation on the National Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel shall consider the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resources.

A 2012 research report from Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national security.

Beatrice started fruit tree growing after joining the Kwatanisa Womens Group, a local group in Uganda's Hoima district that aims to empower local women with modern farming techniques for environmental conservation and climate change adaptation.

• Europe — Adaptation policy has been developed across all levels of government, with some adaptation planning integrated into coastal and water management, into environmental protection and land planning, and into disaster risk mAdaptation policy has been developed across all levels of government, with some adaptation planning integrated into coastal and water management, into environmental protection and land planning, and into disaster risk madaptation planning integrated into coastal and water management, into environmental protection and land planning, and into disaster risk management.

In his Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance on October 5, 2009, President Obama said that the task force was by that time «already engaged in developing the domestic and international dimensions of a U.S. strategy for adaptation to climate change» and should «develop approaches through which the policies and practices of the agencies can be made compatible with and reinforce that strategy.»

The report concludes that the GCF should approach private companies and financiers slowly and with a high degree of caution, and only engage them to the extent that they can guarantee compliance with high standards on environmental, social and development effectiveness; implement robust processes designed to address financial, social and environmental risks; and produce effective mitigation and adaptation outcomes.

Timeline illustrating the lifetimes (sum of lead time and consequence time) of different types of decisions, compared with the time scales for some global environmental changes, and the changing implications for adaptation.

In addressing these crises, local media can play a crucial role in reporting on adaptation strategies and facilitating discussion on dealing with environmental change.

Kelly pursued her doctoral work at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where her research focused on adaptation policies to contend with climate impacts to biodiversity.

Arivudai Nambi Appadurai, India Adaptation Strategy Head for the Climate Resilience Practice and WRI India, distills how they can adapt, with a focus on the dynamics of environmental justice and sustainable development.

One aspect of remedying this problem, which is consistent with a human rights based response to climate change, is recognising and utilising traditional environmental knowledge, which has already been identified by natural scientists as an under - used resource for climate impact and adaptation assessment.

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco andenvironmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco andEnvironmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.